Management

This page includes content on healthcare management, including health system, hospital, department and clinic business management and administration. Areas of focus are on cardiology and radiology department business administration. Subcategories covered in this section include healthcare economics, reimbursement, leadership, mergers and acquisitions, policy and regulations, practice management, quality, staffing, and supply chain.

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Americans don’t believe Trump has a ‘phenomenal health plan’

The majority of Americans don’t believe President Trump has a healthcare plan to replace the Affordable Care Act. While Trump has touted that he will release a healthcare plan and that his administration already had an outline for a plan back in June, he has yet to release anything.

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Ultra-low-dose CT bests digital radiography for extremity fractures on everything but cost

Ultra-low-dose CT catches more fractures of the wrist and ankle than digital radiology without exposing the patient to higher radiation doses.

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RADPAC names new board members

RADPAC—the American College of Radiology Association’s bipartisan political action committee—has announced a new slate of board members whose terms will start Dec. 1.

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Academics score $20M grant to build ‘revolutionary’ imaging tool for Parkinson’s diagnosis

A collection of researchers led by Penn Medicine are developing what they believe could be a game-changing new tool to detect Parkinson’s and other neurological diseases.

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Medicaid work requirements challenged in court

The Trump administration’s efforts to change the Medicaid program by allowing states to implement work requirements could be under threat as they are challenged in court and threatened by a new report that shows the steep cost of putting the changes into place.

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More states exit Healthcare.gov to run their own insurance marketplaces

A handful of states are contemplating leaving the federal healthcare marketplace in favor of their own state-based marketplace. 

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Foreign-born women lagging behind US peers in breast cancer screening rates

There’s been little research conducted on this phenomenon. But investigators with the National Center for Health Statistics recently dived into the data and found clear disparities between immigrants and U.S.-born women, according to their study, published Wednesday, Oct. 9, in National Health Statistics Reports.

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Capping resident payments could save Medicare more than $1.2B

Medicare may be shelling out an extra $1.2 billion in overpayments for graduate medical education (GME), which trains medical residents, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.